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030409 080106665 viewsWarramboo, empty grain train arrives just after 0800 and stops for a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871.
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030415 071138665 viewsKevin, loading is almost complete 0700 hrs. as gypsum train 3DD2 stands behind triple NJ class Clyde Engineering EMD JL22C model units serial 71-732, NJ 6 serial 71-733 and NJ 3 serial 71-730, these units built in 1971 at Clyde's Granville workshops started out on the Central Australia Railway for the Commonwealth Railways before being transferred to the Eyre Peninsula system in 1981. At the Kevin loading point.
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103-05664 viewsSpringhurst station building overview, staff exchange platform and walkway across tracks, apparatus set up gauge, signal levers visible in windows, staff exchange box on station wall.
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103-24664 viewsBenalla, broad gauge V/Line VFLX type bogie bulk end flat waggon VFLX 49 loaded with rail, Benalla B signal box in background. VFLX 49 was built by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an SFX type bulkhead flat waggon in 1968. This waggon was recoded to VQLX 138 in May 1991.
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113-19664 viewsParwan Loop, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 with C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271 and C class C 510 serial 76-833 split the up home signals at the west end of the loop, in miserable conditions, poor quality.
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135-03664 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge Comeng Qld built (under contract for Clyde Engineering) EMD model GL22C, Queensland Rail's 1502 class unit 1523, in 2005 1523 was rebuilt and now operated by FCAB in Chile as their 1455. In the background is QR English Electric built model RSE92C 1620 class leader 1620.
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196-32664 viewsWittenoom Gorge, Gorge Mine area, asbestos mining remains, side tipping ore waggons, one can be seen in the background in the tipped position.
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111-12663 viewsNorth Geelong C Box, V/Line broad gauge up Mt Gambier goods train 9192 heads around the Loop Line bound for Melbourne behind X class X 48 Clyde Engineering EMD model G26C serial 75-795 and older sister X 42 serial 70-705, signal post 19 is the down home signal for the Loop Line.
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162-3-15663 viewsMelbourne Yard, PTC Open Day, V/Line broad gauge WZ type six wheel Weedex spray van WZ 2, converted in 1982 from ZL type six wheel guards van ZL 497, which started out as a Z type van Z 497 built at Newport by Ireland and Party in December 1914, coupled to two VZVA type bogie tank waggons and VZVA 247 louvre van.
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190-05663 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, looking north, signal gantry with standpipe foundation in front, platform behind, dock road on the left.
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190-16663 viewsCootamundra, NSW Main South, departmental waggon W 1569, a loaded NHBF type bogie ballast waggon NHBF 1569 with a Comeng plate.
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193-02663 viewsWamuran station building from the western end. The line through Wamuran opened on December 6, 1909 and was extended to Kilcoy by 1914, then Wamuran became the terminus on the July 1, 1964. This station building now resides at the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Society in Woodford.
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107-02662 viewsKyabram track view, Kyabram Co-op Fruit Preserving Company and Southern Can Company sidings and factory gates, point rodding and derailer.
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110-14662 viewsBenalla yard, GY type four wheel waggons GY 16209 and GY 5514 in super phosphate traffic. GY 5514 built new by AE Goodwin in February 1954, while GY 16209 was built in 1949 by Victorian Railways Newport Workshops as an HY type, in September 1964 recoded to GY.
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135-08662 viewsIpswich yard, narrow gauge QR 1620 class leader 1620, 3/4 roster, trailing view. Built by English Electric at Rocklea Qld, model RS95C serial A-138.
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186-04662 viewsMidland, empty standard gauge down grain train 051 powers along behind Westrail L class locomotive L 268 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 68-617 with forty WW and WWA type bogie grain waggons.
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030409 080101662 viewsWarramboo, empty grain train arrives just after 0800 and stops for a crew change. Rebuild unit DA 7 in Australian Southern orange and black livery leads a pair of AE Goodwin built ALCo model DL531 830 class units 872 and 871 framed between the station building and the SACBH concrete silo complex.
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150523 8234662 viewsNelson Point Yard, I Area, waggon scrapping by Sims Metal, a fork lift carries waggon no. 3340, one of 350 waggons built in Romania of which only about 60 made it into service, the rest rusting away in a caged embargo area out on the Broome Road until they were scrapped some years ago. There is a connection with these waggons and Lang Hancock and his former mine McCamey's Monster, now known as Jimblebar. 5665 looks on, its days also numbered.
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113-08661 viewsWarrenheip, V/Line broad gauge up Adelaide goods train 9150 behind the quad CGCG combo of C class C 506 Clyde Engineering EMD model GT26C serial 76-829, G class G 538 Clyde Engineering EMD model JT26C-2SS serial 89-1271, C class C 510 serial 76-833 and G class G 513 serial 85-1241, in miserable conditions, wait as a down passenger train with N class N 472 'City of Sale' Clyde Engineering EMD model JT22HC-2 serial 87-1201 and double N set passes.
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150505 7937661 viewsFMG Solomon Line, looking east across earth fill abutment with culverts, sign indicating Babangarra Creek. Geodata: -22.0522533 118.7402133 .
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